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Year Three, New City, New Grade, Same Sport
Let’s be honest: waking up early on a Saturday, putting on a teacher dress, and spending all day criss-crossing across town between Catholic masses and parties full of strangers is not most people’s dream way to spend a weekend. Turns out it’s not so bad.
This Saturday was a big First Communion day for my kids. They were dressed in beautiful all-white dresses and suits, surrounded by proud family and on their best behavior. Relatives no one had ever heard of were popping out of nowhere and everyone’s houses were open for big post-mass celebrations. There were lots of pictures and lots of presents and lots of hands to shake.
It was a day that made me very happy to speak Spanish. From the priests to the godparents to the little siblings to my kids themselves, pretty much no one breathed a word of English all day. I’m not sure I would…
I have something to tell parents. This might be worth keeping in mind the next time you start screaming relentlessly at a teacher informing you of a consequence. First, I am not out to get your child. I see 130 kids every day. I love them dearly or it wouldn’t be worth coming to…
read more »One of my babies was in a very big accident yesterday. She’s in bad shape and the long-term damage might be very serious. Every time I’m alone, I just sit and cry.
read more »By popular demand (and because I need somewhere to organize this for myself), I’m going to put up a series of posts about what I learned at the NCTM conference. If you’re a math teacher, I hope this is as valuable for you as it is for me! (If you’re not a math teacher, I…
read more »By popular demand (and because I need somewhere to organize this for myself), I’m going to put up a series of posts about what I learned at the NCTM conference. If you’re a math teacher, I hope this is as valuable for you as it is for me! (If you’re not a math teacher, I…
read more »By popular demand (and because I need somewhere to organize this for myself), I’m going to put up a series of posts about what I learned at the NCTM conference. If you’re a math teacher, I hope this is as valuable for you as it is for me! (If you’re not a math teacher, I…
read more »By popular demand (and because I need somewhere to organize this for myself), I’m going to put up a series of posts about what I learned at the NCTM conference. If you’re a math teacher, I hope this is as valuable for you as it is for me! (If you’re not a math teacher, I…
read more »I have a student who somehow managed to be in sixth grade while two years older than everyone else and completely hardened against any sort of behavior consequence. He does the most ridiculous things you can imagine, and nothing we do to him will even get him to blink. He’s tough and he’s angry, and…
read more »I’m going to the NCTM National Conference on Wednesday, and my directions are to “go to whatever you want and bring things back to share with other math teachers.” This is lovely in the freedom it provides, but I unfortunately don’t actually have any idea how to do that. What, exactly, will other math…
read more »I love sixth grade math because there is so much room to develop conceptual understanding, and that’s great for kids and an excellent mental challenge for me. But I didn’t realize how much I miss doing math that I, personally, find fun to do. I’ve taken over our advanced math class for a couple weeks,…
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